Malayappan Chinnappa

Aesu Malayappan Chinnappa or A. M. Chinnappa is the Archbishop Emeritus of Madras-Mylapore and the Founder of the Society of God's Reign (Currently a Public Association). He was formerly Bishop of Vellore.

Biography
Chinnappa was born on 23 July 1937 at Ayandur which was then a substation of Mugaiyur Parish. He studied a Teacher Training Course with the MEP Fathers in Tindivanam.

He was ordained Priest of Salesians of Don Bosco on 16 December 1972. On November 17, 1993 he was appointed as the Bishop of Vellore by Pope John Paul II. He was ordained as the Bishop of Vellore on January 25, 1994 by Cardinal Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy. During his time there, he built a new cathedral.

On 1 April 2005 he was appointed as the Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore, the post he held until his retirement on 12 November 2012.

He has held the post of Chairman of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of India Commission on Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes.

On August 24, 2011 he founded a Religious Institute called the Society of God's Reign.